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Chapter 13: Isaiah Teaches That Sins are Forgiven Through Christ's Blood.
"For Isaiah did not send you to a bath to wash away murder and other sins, which not even all the water of the sea could cleanse; but, as might have been expected, this was the saving bath of old for those who repented, no longer purified by the blood of goats and sheep, or by the ashes of a heifer, or by offerings of fine flour, but by faith through the blood of Christ and through His death, who died for this very reason, as Isaiah himself said, when he spoke: ‘The Lord will make bare His holy arm in the eyes of all the nations, and all the nations and the ends of the earth will see the salvation of God.
DEPART: depart, depart, go out from there, and touch no unclean thing; go out of the midst of her, be clean you who bear the vessels of the Lord, for you do not go in haste. For the Lord will go before you; and the Lord, the God of Israel, will gather you together. Behold, my servant will act wisely; and He will be exalted and greatly glorified. As many were astonished at You, so Your form and Your glory will be marred more than men.
So shall many nations be astonished at Him, and kings will shut their mouths; for what has not been told them concerning Him they will see, and what they had not heard they will consider. Lord, who has believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? We have announced Him as a child before Him, as a root in a dry ground. He has no form or comeliness, and when we saw Him, He had no form or beauty; but His form is dishonored and fails more than the sons of men.
He is a man of suffering and familiar with sickness, because His face has been turned away; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him. He bears our sins and is distressed for us; and we regarded Him as afflicted and suffering and treated harshly.
But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; the punishment for our peace was upon Him. With His wounds we are healed. All of us, like sheep, have gone astray.
Each has turned to his own way; and the Lord laid on Him our iniquities, and despite His oppression, He does not open His mouth. He was led like a sheep to the slaughter; and as a lamb before its shearer is silent, so He does not open His mouth. In His humiliation, His judgment was taken away. And who will declare His generation? For His life is taken from the earth. Because of the transgressions of my people, He came unto death.
And I will give the wicked for His grave and the rich for His death, because He committed no iniquity, and deceit was not found in His mouth. And the Lord wills to purify Him from affliction. If He has been offered for sin, your soul will see a long-lived seed. And the Lord wills to take His soul away from trouble, to show Him light, and to give Him understanding, to justify the righteous One who serves many well.
And He will bear our sins; therefore He will inherit many and will divide the spoils of the strong, because His soul was delivered to death; and He was counted among the transgressors, and He bore the sins of many, and was delivered for their transgression. Sing, O barren one who does not bear; break forth and cry aloud, you who do not travail in pain: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife.
For the Lord said, Enlarge the place of your tent and your curtains; fix them, do not spare, lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes; stretch forth to your right and left; and your seed will inherit the Gentiles, and you will make the desolate cities to be inhabited. Fear not because you are ashamed, neither be confused because you have been reproached; for you will forget the shame of old, and will not remember the reproach of your widowhood, because the Lord has made a name for Himself, and He who has redeemed you will be called throughout the whole earth the God of Israel.
The Lord has called you as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, as a woman hated from her youth.'"